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Item Africa Evaluation Indaba(CLEAR-AA, 2020-10-07) CLEAR-AAItem Building National Evaluation Systems: the Role of Development Partners(CLEAR-AA, 2022-06-04) Morkel, CandiceThere has been significant growth in the efforts to establish M&E systems and functions in governments, particularly in the Global South. Countries, such as South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda (amongst others), have built M&E systems to assess various strategies and national development plans (CLEAR-AA 2013). One of the reasons for this is the pressure on governments to implement their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and report on their performance in the periodic Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) presented by Heads of State to the High-Level Political Forum at the annual United Nations General Assembly (United Nations c. 2020). One of the effects of the growth in M&E systems is a shift from accounting for budget expenditure to a focus on the achievement of development results, which is a welcome development. Monitoring and evaluation now needs to be located in the broader discourse around sustainable development and the achievement of systemwide development.Item City Power Training Report(CLEAR-AA, 2017-02) CLEAR-AACapacity building is generally provided to help organizations to develop their own capacity to better fulfil their core functions, and achieve their own mission. It requires in depth reflection on organization’s culture, values and vision. The City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality led by the Group Strategy Policy Communications and Relations (GSPCR) embarked on a city wide Monitoring and Evaluation capacity building programme which commenced in July 2016. This created some interest in the city as such private entities as ‘City Power’ wanted to go the same process with their staff (senior managers). Improve the organization’s overall performance and its ability to adapt itself within a changing context.Item Consultancy on "A Meta-analysis of school-based interventions"(CLEAR-AA, 2020-08)Item DETPA 2020(CLEAR-AA, 2020) CLEAR-AAItem Digital Transformation in African Parliaments(CLEAR-AA, 2021-07-19) Mosienyane, TefoThis learning note draws on lessons from the piloting of the African Parliamentary Oversight Tool developed by the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results – Anglophone Africa’s (CLEAR-AA) in two African parliaments. It further outlines lessons and recommendations to guide practitioners in implementing successful digital transformation initiatives in African Parliaments. The African POT is an online research management tool that emanates from CLEAR-AA’s commitment to support and improve evidence generation and use that furthers better decision making. The African POT is a digital intervention project that undertakes digital transformation in evidence generation, use and culture in African Parliaments. This happens through a mobile application that integrates the evidence process, from the demand side by the MP. Evidence is then synthetized by parliamentary researchers to facilitate MPs use of evidence This platform digitalises some of the existing processes, but in the long term is designed to bring about organizational, cultural and process changes that allow for a culture of evidence-based decision making to flourish. The key issues of consideration in piloting the African POT involved data governance, security and vulnerability, implementation challenges related to staff capacity, technical language and the type of commitments required from practitioners and parliaments in implementing the tool.Item ENVIRONMENTAL and SOCIAL COMMITMENT PLAN (ESCP)(CLEAR-AA, 2021-09-14) CLEAR-AAItem Evaluation Impact Investing in Africa Course (2016)(CLEAR-AA, 2016) Mr Jackson, T. Edward; Harji, KarimThis is the syllabus for an executive course on evaluating impact investing in Africa. It is designed for professionals in finance and investment, business management and acceleration, social enterprise, social innovation, development, philanthropy, public policy, university research and program evaluation. The impact investing field is defined as the range of products, services and actors that intentionally seek a social or environmental impact as well as a financial return in the deployment of capital.Item How to conduct Digital Merl in the time of COVID-19(CLEAR-AA, 2020-06) CLEAR-AA; MERL-TechThe COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the globe with its exponentially growing numbers of affected persons, crashing economies, and dwindling medical supplies. A great majority of the world is suffering the effects. COVID-19 has also brought drastic changes in how organizations operate due to travel restrictions, quarantine, and social distancing orders from governments who are desperate to slow the spread of the virus and lessen its impact.Item Indaba Competition Template(CLEAR-AA, 2022-11-14) CLEAR-AAItem Indaba programme(2022) CLEARAAItem Item Leaving no one behind: Evaluation for 2030(UNDP, 2020-09) UNDP’s NEC Conference and teamItem Limited use of evaluative evidence in public policy, planning and Voluntary National Review (VNR) development.(2023) Dlakavu, A; Hoffmann, DThe UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a development tool, with a detailed follow-up and review mechanism, guided by a global indicator framework and prominently positioned in Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs). Within this context, however, program evaluation only plays a minor role. This policy brief analyses the position of program evaluation in public policy, development planning and VNR development processes of eight countries in Africa and Latin America. The brief is based on a discussion paper produced jointly by the German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results-Anglophone Africa (CLEAR-AA) and the Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results-Latin America and the Caribbean (CLEAR-LAC) in 2022. This paper found that program evaluation is marginalized in VNR development, a key international tool for assessing UN member nations’ progress in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through document analysis and key informant interviews in the sampled countries, the paper finds that the marginal position of program evaluation vis-à-vis VNR development is linked to a combination of structural and operational issues. These include lack of internalization and entrenchment of the SDGs in public policy and planning cycles and/or processes of governments; lack of focus on the VNR process by evaluation stakeholders; the VNR development guidelines’ quantitative bias; and emerging evaluation practice in certain countries. This brief concludes by recommending five remedial policies for addressing the marginalized position of evaluation in VNRs.Item M&E Capacity-strengthening approaches and their measurement in Anglophone Africa – A policy perspective(CLEAR-AA, 2020-08) Chirau, Takunda; Masvaure, Steven; Kiwekete, AngelitaItem A meta-analysis of South African education interventions(CLEAR-AA, 2017) CLEAR-AA; ZANEX FoundationThis aim of this meta-analysis is to explore the various contextual factors and design features that influence the magnitude of the effects reported in education impact studies. The meta-analysis investigates investors and policy-makers with a synthesis of 15 years of learning, in order to inform new programming, and improve efforts to address education challenges.Item The National Evaluation Policy landscape in Africa: A comparison(CLEAR-AA, 2018) Takunda, Chirau; Cara, Waller; Caitlin, Blaser MapitsaThis policy brief examines key elements of national evaluation policies among selected African countries with a view to inform policy-makers on good practices for the development of such policies. This brief draws from a comparative study conducted by CLEAR-AA in 2018 of the status of national evaluation policies of South Africa, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Uganda, and Kenya.Item Parliament, Participation and Policy Making(CLEAR-AA, 2020-06) Pabari, Mine; Odhowa, Ahmed HassanIn 2010, with the enactment of the new Constitution, Kenya adopted a presidential system of government which strengthened the role of the legislature in the legislative process and reduced the influence of the executive. Legislative authority comprises of the national parliament (the National Assembly and the Senate) and County Assemblies for the county level of government. Public participation is a core pillar and principle of governance under the Kenya Constitution. Public participation is defined by the National Assembly as, “the process of interaction between an organisation and the public with the aim of making an acceptable and better decision”(The Clerk of the National Assembly, 2017). Public participation in the governance process is guided by various provisions of the Constitution and numerous statutes including the Public Finance and Management Act1, The County governments Act2, The Access to Information Act3 and the Public Procurement and Assets Disposal Act4. The Parliamentary standing orders set out the procedures for lodging a petition by a member of the public.Item Should the COVID-19 lockdown social relief of distress grant be made permanent?(CLEAR-AA, 2022-01) Mathebula, Jabulane; Fish, Tebogo; Masvaure, SteveItem Social Media Communications for African Public Institutions(CLEAR-AA, 2019-01) Ms Ali, AishaSocial media is growing exponentially in Africa. While many governments perceive an increase in political social media as a threat, and several governments have set up social media controls and even sanctioned complete blackouts in moments of heightened political tension, they are also increasingly finding it convenient to interact with their publics through social media. While this is mostly one-way broadcast-style communication about service delivery or in emergencies, the two-way, interactive possibilities of social media offer public institutions opportunities to tap into information from citizens and to interact.